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Man who hawked rifle as boy gets it back Mon Sep 25, 10:36 PM ET

It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters and conversations.

"I didn't even have much reaction," said Jackson. "I was so dumbfounded."

As a boy, Jackson felt bad that his grandmother was too poor to have a washer. So he took the rifle he had earned money for by mowing lawns and doing other chores to a pawn shop.

"That was the only thing I had that was worth anything," Jackson told The Lewiston Tribune.

The pawn shop owner agreed to trade a wringer washer for the rifle. When the washer was delivered to his grandmother, Edna Jackson, she refused it until realizing the sacrifice her grandson had made.

"She just couldn't believe it," Jackson said.

The rifle, meanwhile, remained with the pawn shop owner, Bill Jackson. He never sold the rifle, instead giving it to family friend James Grow in the 1980s, recounting the story that accompanied the rifle.

"He told me the story but I never thought anything about it," Grow said. "I didn't even know who Terry Jackson was at the time, although Bill did tell me his name."

Grow said Bill Jackson told him the gun might be worth something someday. He never shot the rifle and kept it in his closet.

Grow become an attorney in Lewiston, and Terry Jackson recently hired Grow to do some legal work. The connection might not have been made about the rifle except for a conversation Becky Brotnov, Terry Jackson's companion, had with Grow during a business lunch.

She told the story of Terry Jackson giving up the rifle to get the washer.

"All of a sudden it dawned on me, I own the gun," Grow said.

After hearing the story, Grow said he knew he wouldn't keep the gun. So he recently drove to Terry Jackson's home to return the rifle.

"That was a really nice thing he did for his grandma," Grow said.

Information from: Lewiston Tribune, http://www.lmtribune.com

Awesome. What a great story.

Member Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 781

We should take up a collection to buy Grow a new gun.

He did the right thing and from the sound of things no one had to shame him into it. How rare is that?

Consider the bragging you see on the net about guys picking up guns for peanuts from elderly widows closets.....I hope to face that situation some day and and in the process I'll find out what kind of stuff I'm really made of.

Hey! RevDrDrew, work this story into your next sermon.

Jeff

"work this story into your next sermon."

How about the way of the world is self, stuff, sex and power... a better Way is self-sacrifice, simplicity, fidelity, and servanthood?
(way to go and make me all convicted about lusting after that 16g Hunter Arms 2E LC Smith at WilliamLarkinMoore Embarassed

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Member Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 781

Rev,

Don't think of it as lust, think of it as genuine appreciation of the subtle beauty created by inspired and gifted craftsmen. And you dont want it to covet privately. I am certain that you'd take it afield for all to see and to experience the grace of it's form AND function.

Jeff

And let some semi-domesticated lab running Neanderthal like thuddd or HOA ...touch it Shocked

(there IS a limit to brotherly love after all Wink

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"I resemble that remark"
Curly Fine, 1939

http://4girards.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=11446

Member Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Posts: 398 Location: S Fl

NYUK, nyuk, nyuk............

Actually, Curly and Moe were the Howard (real names Jerome and Moses Horowitz) brothers.
Larry's last name was Fine.

And remember, "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking 'til you do suck seed." Curly Howard to Moe on the art of eating oranges. Moe's response of course was, "Pick two."

We're gonna need a new thread...

"There must be a lot of game here, it says 'Fine for hunting' !"

that was Larry Fine to Moe and Curly. They used the same line about fishing too. A good joke is eternal. These ones probably predate the Romans. ....and we chuckle every time we hear them.

Antonius to Cirilus, " Is that the sun up there? Cirilus to Antonious, " I don't know. I'm new to Rome." Laughing

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Sorry, brain fart on the "Curly Fine", reference. I know better!

The vaudville act Howard, Fine and Howard were stage names chosen to low profile their Jewish last names. Larry Fines real last name was Finklestein.

How about a great quote from a periferal character, remember the cook?:

"Dis hous done gone plum crazy!"

(sounds like something that Nash Buckingham would have written for old Horace)